On Marxism
Marxism constitutes one of the main currents of contemporary thought. By now, there is no counting the works that set out to expound, combat, or even ‘supersede’ it. It is already no easy task to find the path that cuts …
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The 1-2-3 Toolbox of Mainstream Economics Promising Everything, Delivering Nothing
We write this essay for both lay readers and scientists, though mainstream economists are welcome to enjoy it too. Our subject is the basic toolbox of mainstream economics. The most important tools in this box are demand, supply and equilibrium. …
The 1-2-3 Toolbox of Mainstream Economics Promising Everything, Delivering Nothing
Science and Philosophy: A Global Re-Evaluation
… Let us take the following axioms which guide us in the description of non-philosophy: 1) Philosophy is the capital within thought, the capital-form of our general relations to the World; it is an autonomous generalized form of socio-economic capital. 2) It is impossible …
Luciana Parisi and the problem of the predictability of unpredictability
In her book Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi calls on us to distance ourselves from two – still relevant today – metacomputational definitions, according to which a) algorithms are determined as finite quantities, or b) as evolutionary interactive models, the latter …
Luciana Parisi and the problem of the predictability of unpredictability
Laruelle, Art, and the Scientific Model
I want to begin by briefly considering Francois Laruelle’s Non-philosophy project alongside the philosophy of Louis Althusser, in order that some of the consequences for an ‚aesthetics of the generic‘ (or what for Laruelle would be a Non-aesthetics) might be …
The Two Marxisms
To summarize some of the differences between Critical and Scientific Marxism: Critical Marxism leans toward a perspective in which human decisions can make an important difference, toward a voluntarism in which human courage and determination count, while Scientific Marxism stresses …